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6/24/2010 2:19PM

digits: Google's YouTube Wins Big Against Viacom

A federal judge in New York ruled in favor of Google's YouTube, in a closely watched copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by Viacom, which claimed that YouTube had sought to exploit Viacom's copyrighted works for profit. Sam Schechner has details.

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... no it is subsegment ... this time and again the building ... of the need to face the Gruebel has won against ... Verizon ... and its allies ... revived all going in the Olam in front of it ... against Viacom ... tells about is it all revolves around the Digital Millennium copyright Act and the ... dual use that to themselves explained ... will ... the DNCA was passed ninety seven updated copyright law for that you know ... the new millennium ... op and part of that there were provisions ... you know in addition ... to increasing penalties for copper violations are provisions in there ... that sort of exempted under certain conditions via ASP's Internet service providers ... hosting companies ... for piracy that happen to occur on their servers so that you need it could be willing to leave the scene for the wrongdoings that users ... are and ... that Casey knowing that in this case the judge found that even though ... Google and YouTube were aware of and perhaps ... welcomed ... piracy under servers that ... because they didn't know specifically what was Fiat what we're violations what weren't they were a response ... the credit application store even if it is unplanned somewhat set back is a part of the city of ... Umm do much to ... report the hotter thousand ... and one exam essays into the red attest to both of you what's the implications of this but media companies for Internet companies and ... consumers first budget doesn't stand up to her about the order of ... business this isn't a pelvis is identical or concessions as a lower court decision ... on TNGN rocks or trees to block ... it ... boodle Aviva Fleisher filesharing of this country ... that was ... watched by energy and twice before it's important that ... Best Buy ... so that's the first thing ... yet this is this is just the beginning probably of bubble bubble on Catalan that in that in some sense but that means is the courts are unresolved this time frame before ... what happens get settled in the marketplace and it puts a lot more emphasis on media companies ... Sony was what happens in market by Zions's the question and in the meantime local artists are ... guarding happen or what's the big media companies in the very biggest companies like you to store reached today about ... how to best proceed weren't account ... violations according to the stock to sell ads on the start of an uneasy truce ... even with CBS which is less than the rest of my ... the much more deal with within a deal with teaching you might see more investment from some of the company's books were afraid to invest in service because it wanted to put ... it as an ambassador for protecting perhaps what our consumers what does this mean for me when I'm home with my computer ... well in the short term probably not very much up because Youtube already ... dose of the things that ... that you know Viacom which they were doing this to them in the first lesson automatically Screen the contents if you try to upload something you don't ... you'll be law I've put up of World Cup but this morning someone else to put up and that with a couple hours and taken down but the ... people who own the rights to that list so that already happens ... all but what it might mean in the long term is that there's more incentive for media companies to continue to compete with piracy by putting free online video like Lulu which is its people the body and his focus was ... afraid that's all we've got time for ...